Chuukese language
Chuukese, also rendered Trukese, is a Trukic language of the Austronesian language family spoken primarily on the islands of Chuuk in the Caroline Islands in Micronesia. There are communities of speakers on Pohnpei, Guam, and the Hawaiian Islands as well. Estimates show that there are about 45,900 speakers in Micronesia.Phonology
Chuukese has the unusual feature of permitting word-initial geminate consonants. The common ancestor of Western Micronesian languages is believed to have had this feature, but most of its modern descendants have lost it.
Truk and Chuuk are a difference in orthography, and both older tr and current ch transcribe the sound.
Consonants are doubled in Chuuk, when they have a voiceless sound. Some consonant combinations are frequently denasalized between vowels when doubled.
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